9 day Year 2 plan based on Tuesday by David Weisner. Plan includes lots of opportunities for the children to write and write at length. Teaching points around questioning and structuring a story clearly. Main objectives: To use expanded noun phrases to describe and specify. To learn how to use sentences with different forms - questions Planning about what we are going to write. To write a story opening. To include exciting story events. To write a story

A leaver’s assembly written for Year 2 children moving from an Infant School to the Junior School. Written for 60 children to all have a part. Story was written combining ideas from well known stories. Song suggestions for the children to choreograph short dances to. Assembly was written to last for 45 minutes.

8 day plan for Year 2 based on The Great Paper Caper by Oliver Jeffers. Activities work around the objectives: To expand noun phrases to describe and specify. To use familiar punctuation correctly (full stops and capital letters) To write using first person. Take on the role of a character To understand how to write for different purposes. To use different conjunctions in writing. To use different conjunctions in writing. To write about fictional events. Children have lots of opportunities for writing around the story and writing at length.

Year two 8 day English plan based on The Wonder by Faye Hanson. Lots of opportunities for writing in response to the story during the unit as well as writing at length. Main objectives covered: To use full stops and capital letters correctly. To use spaces between words. To make sure letters aren’t too big and the correct size. Using when, if, that, or because

A four day unit of work for Year 2 based on the book Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett, culminating in the children writing their own postcard based on the postcards in the book. Specific focuses of work: To use expanded noun phrases. To use description in writing To write in the correct tense

This is a 3 day plan for Year 2 children writing in response to the book The Day the Crayons Came Home by Oliver Jeffers. The children had already worked on the previous book The Day the Crayons Quit. Main objectives covered: Participate in discussions about books that are read to them. Include an exclamation sentence. Use coordination but. Use subordination when

Year 2 - 8 Day unit of work based around the book A Tale of Two Beasts by Fiona Roberton. The children plan their own story written in two parts where they rescue a creature and take it home with them. Specific focus on - To use effective vocabulary in writing (expanded noun phrases). - To use different types of sentences – statement, question, command, exclamation

8 Day long Year 2 plan for the story Stuck by Oliver Jeffers. Children are writing at regular intervals during the week as well as being challenged to write at length. Main objectives covered are: To make inference on the basis of what has been said or done. Predicting what might happen on the basis of what has happened so far. To use expanded noun phrases to describe and specify Write sentences with different forms – exclamation. Uses tense that is appropriate to the task.

This is a 7 day English plan for Year 2 children based around the book The Day the Crayons Quit by Oliver Jeffers. The children work on a range of different activities including speaking and listening, inference, diary writing and letter writing over the course of the unit of work. Main objective focuses are: Participate in discussions about books that are read to them. Drawing on what they already know and making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done. To use different types of sentences in writing. Writing for different purposes. Proofread to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation.

The title of this assembly was ‘Down a Rabbit hole’. A leaver’s assembly written for Year 2 children moving from an Infant School to the Junior School. Written for 60 children to all have a part. Story was written combining ideas from a well known story with links to the school (people, places etc). Song suggestions for the children to choreograph short dances to. Assembly was written to last for 45 minutes.